SECAUCUS -- A man who was raising farm animals as a hobby on a Secaucus Road lot was told today he had until Saturday to move them out of town.

Responding to a report of "exotic animals" being held in a makeshift coop, town officials went to a lot at 210 Secaucus Road and found "ducks, roosters, a couple of turkeys, and couple of hens," Vincent Prieto, the town's zoning officer, said.

"They were in good condition," Prieto, who is also a state assemblyman, said. "Animal control was there too."

Prieto didn't know how long the animals had been there. He said the man renting the lot is an out-of-towner and he told officials he was pursuing a "hobby."

The man raising the animals told a Jersey Journal photographer this afternoon that he is a Cuban native and had been keeping the animals on the lot for past five years.

A town ordinance prohibits the breeding, keeping, and raising of horses, ponies, pigs, rabbits, sheep, goats, cattle, poultry, and other farm animals. The keeping and raising of pigeons are also prohibited.